460 PLUMS. 



This is called Wheat Plum, in consequence of its 

 being ripe about the time of the wheat harvest. 



41. WILMOT'S EARLY ORLEANS. Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. iii. p. 392. 1. 14. 



Wilmot's Orleans. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 274. 



Wilmot's New Early Orleans. Ib. 



Wilmot's Late Orleans. Ib. According to the Hort. 

 Soc. Cat. 



Branches downy, like the Common Orleans. Fruit 

 above the middle size, round, rather deeply cleft, more 

 compressed than the Old Orleans, especially at the apex. 

 Stalk short. Skin pale red on the shaded side, but 

 where exposed to the sun of a dark purple tint, and 

 covered with a fine thin bloom. Flesh of a rich greenish 

 yellow, inclining to amber when quite ripe, of a pleasant 

 consistence, being much softer and more juicy than the 

 Orleans, and separates clean from the stone. Juice 

 plentiful, sweet, combined with acid, of excellent flavour. 

 Stone round, rather small, in proportion to the size of 

 the fruit. 



Ripe the beginning of August, as early as the Mo- 

 rocco, or the Precoce de Tours. 



Raised in 1809 by Mr. John Wilmot, in his garden 

 at Isleworth, near London. 



42. WINESOUR. Forsyth, Ed. 7. No. 32. 

 Rotherham. Of the Old Gardens. 



Branches slender, downy. Fruit rather larger than 

 a Damson, oblong. Stalk half an inch long. Skfa 

 dark bluish purple, covered with dark purple specks, 

 particularly where exposed to the sun. Flesh greenish 

 yellow, and adheres to the stone, near which there are 

 some red streaks in the flesh. Juice subacid. Stone 

 long, slender, and acute-pointed. 



Ripe about the middle of September. 



This Plum is said to have originated in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rotherham, in Yorkshire, many years ago. 



